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Princess Shikishi or Shokushi (式子内親王 Shikishi/Shokushi Naishinnō) (1149 – March 1, 1201) was a Japanese classical poet, who lived during the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. She was the third d ...
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Fujiwara Sadaie (藤原定家), better-known as Fujiwara no Teika (1162 – September 26, 1241), was a Japanese anthologist, calligrapher, literary critic, novelist, poet, and scribe of the late Heian and early ...
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Emperor Sutoku (崇徳天皇, Sutoku-tennō, July 7, 1119 – September 14, 1164) was the 75th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
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Fujiwara no Ieyoshi (藤原家良 1192 - 1264) was a waka poet and Japanese nobleman active in the Heian period and early Kamakura period. He is designated as a member of the New Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry ...
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Fujiwara no Hideyoshi (藤原秀能 1184 - 1240) was a Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the New Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. Hideyoshi served as Naidaijin.
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Fujiwara no Akisuke (藤原顕輔, 1090–1155) was a waka poet and Japanese nobleman active in the Heian period. One of his poems is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. A member of the Fujiwara clan, he was also ...
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Shun'e (俊恵, also read Sun'e; 1113 – c. 1191), also known as Tayū no Kimi (大夫公), was a Japanese waka poet of the late-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. He p ...
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Dōin (道因, 1090 — c. 1179; given name Fujiwara no Atsuyori) was a Japanese waka poet of the late-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, and forty-one of his poems ...
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Asukai Masatsune (飛鳥井雅経, born 1170, died 1221) was a Japanese waka poet of the early Kamakura period. He was also an accomplished kemari player. and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin ...
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Gyōson (行尊, 1055/1057—21 March 1135), also known as the Abbot of Byōdō-in (平等院大僧正, Byōdō-in Dai Sōjō), was a Japanese Tendai monk and waka poet of the late-Heian period. He became chief prelate of ...
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Lady Sanuki, attendant to retired Emperor Nijō (二条院讃岐, Nijō-in no Sanuki, c. 1141 – 1217) was a waka poet and Japanese noblewoman active in the late-Heian and early-Kamakura period. She was a co ...
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Suō no Naishi (周防内侍, dates unknown, but probably died around 1110; given name Taira no Nakako) was a Japanese waka poet of the late-Heian period. One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu ...
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Fujiwara no Shunzei no Musume (藤原俊成女, "Fujiwara no Shunzei's daughter"; also occasionally called 藤原俊成卿女, 皇(太)后宮大夫俊成(卿)女 or 越部禅尼), 1171? – 1252?, was a Japanese poet; she was probably the greatest ...
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Jakuren (寂蓮) (also known as Fujiwara no Sadanaga (藤原定長) before becoming a monk) (1139–1202) was a Japanese Buddhist priest and poet. He was adopted by the noted poet Fujiwara no Shunzei upon the death ...
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Fujiwara no Ietaka (藤原家隆, 1158 – May 5, 1237) was an early Kamakura period Japanese waka poet. Several of his poems are included in the Shin Kokin Wakashū. He was related by marriage to Jakuren ...
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Minamoto no Shunrai also Minamoto Toshiyori (源 俊頼, 1055 – January 29, 1129) was an important and innovative Japanese poet, who compiled the Gosen Wakashū. He was the son of Minamoto no Tsunenobu (1016 ...
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Minamoto no Yorimasa (源 頼政) (1106–20 June 1180) was a prominent Japanese poet whose works appeared in various anthologies. He served eight different emperors in his long career, holding posts such as hyōgo ...